The insurrection in Poland that followed the partition of 1793, and the threat of the isolated intervention of Russia, hurried Frederick William into the separate Treaty of Basel with the French Republic (5 April 1795), which was regarded by the great monarchies as a betrayal, and left Prussia morally isolated in Europe on the eve of the struggle between the monarchical principle and the new republican creed of the Revolution.
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Under the terms of the Peace of Basel in 1795, the Kingdom of Prussia had been compelled to cede all her territories west of the Rhine, and together with the west-Rhenish territories of the Prince-Bishops of Trier, Mainz and Cologne, the Electorate of the Palatinate, the duchies of Jülich and Cleves, and the free city of Aachen they were combined into the short-lived Cisrhenian Republic under the rule of a "Protector" Louis Lazare Hoche, a French general.